Get the height of a font in JavaScript

function measureTextHeight(fontSizeFace) {

    // create a temp canvas
    var width=1000;
    var height=60;
    var canvas=document.createElement("canvas");
    canvas.width=width;
    canvas.height=height;
    var ctx=canvas.getContext("2d");

    // Draw the entire a-z/A-Z alphabet in the canvas
    var text="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
    ctx.save();
    ctx.font=fontSizeFace;
    ctx.clearRect(0,0,width,height);
    ctx.fillText(text, 0, 40);
    ctx.restore();

    // Get the pixel data from the canvas
    var data = ctx.getImageData(0,0,width,height).data,
        first = false, 
        last = false,
        r = height,
        c = 0;

    // Find the last line with a non-transparent pixel
    while(!last && r) {
        r--;
        for(c = 0; c < width; c++) {
            if(data[r * width * 4 + c * 4 + 3]) {
                last = r;
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    // Find the first line with a non-transparent pixel
    while(r) {
        r--;
        for(c = 0; c < width; c++) {
            if(data[r * width * 4 + c * 4 + 3]) {
                first = r;
                break;
            }
        }

        // If we've got it then return the height
        if(first != r) return last - first;
    }

    // error condition if we get here
    return 0;
}